hen

noun

/hen/

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a female chicken, often kept for its eggs or meat
- a small flock of laying hens
- battery hens
Extra Examples
- I could hear the hens clucking in the farmyard.
- My hens have stopped laying.
- The hen laid three beautiful speckled eggs.
- The hens pecked hopefully at the dusty floor.
Topics Birdsc2
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
adjective
- battery
- free-range
- mother
- …
verb + hen
- keep
hen + verb
- lay
- lay eggs
- cluck
- …
hen + noun
- coop
- house
See full entry
(especially in compounds) any female bird
- a hen pheasant
compare cock see also moorhenTopics Birdsc2

Word OriginOld English henn, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch hen and German Henne.

单词	hen
释义	hen noun /hen/ /hen/ jump to other results a female chicken, often kept for its eggs or meat a small flock of laying hens battery hens Extra Examples I could hear the hens clucking in the farmyard. My hens have stopped laying. The hen laid three beautiful speckled eggs. The hens pecked hopefully at the dusty floor. Topics Birdsc2 Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective battery free-range mother … verb + hen keep hen + verb lay lay eggs cluck … hen + noun coop house See full entry (especially in compounds) any female bird a hen pheasant compare cock see also moorhenTopics Birdsc2 Word OriginOld English henn, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch hen and German Henne. see also mother hen
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